Announcing the Second Edition of Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft.NET

Today I am announcing the brand new edition of my book titled Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET, now available on Amazon. How fast your code executes is very important for your users and back-end server processes. This is even more important for the future as more and more users, use …

Is Microservices Just A New Marketing Term?

For a recent article on TechTarget.com, I was interviewed for my thoughts on microservices, a new term in our world. Here is what I said (the full quote): Microservices is a great way to decouple an application for faster modernization, improved functionality and better performance, but done incorrectly or without proper architectural understanding, teams can …

Presenting Code Samples with a Dark Theme… Please Don’t!

For all of you who code using apps like Visual Studio or VS Code, please don’t present code in a meeting or conference session using a dark theme! I know I am going to get a lot of push back from this statement but let me explain why (please keep reading). Living with Colorblindness I …

dotNetTips.Utility Dev App

Today I am announcing my new app called dotNetTips.Utility Dev App. With this app I combined my previous dev cleaner and dev backup apps into one with more features coming soon. Clean Visual Studio & SQL Server Temp and Cached Files This feature will quickly remove temporary and cached files created by Visual Studio and …

dotNetDave Rocks India (2018)

I'm very excited to speak at the C# Corner Conference this year on April 13th-15th with other great speakers like Mads Torgersen, Magnus Martensson and the #1 Indian speaker Pinal Dave. I had an awesome time last year and meet hundreds of awesome developers in India. I cant wait to see everyone and enjoy some …

My Workflow Before I Submit Code Changes

For many years when speaking at conferences, I have shared my workflow on what I do before I submit code changes to source control. This article will explain it more in detail. I share this workflow because it makes sure that I rarely get bug tickets from quality assurance and hopefully it will for you …

dotNetDave Rocks Denver!

For the first time the dotNetDave Rock The World Tour hits Denver on June 23, 2017.  I will be doing the keynote at Denver DevDay. If you are in the area, I hope you will come check out my keynote and learn at the conference. Here is the topic of my keynote. Improving Code Quality... …